define and destroy

Friend,

“Define and destroy.”

That’s what a new “research” group plans to do to Andrew and other candidates it opposes. America Rising, a right-wing political action committee, describes its mission in Orwellian terms: “With complete information awareness, we can define and destroy Democrats in 2014 and beyond.”

As Time Magazine reports, “for-profit spies, freelance mercenaries and billionaire moneymen” form the wave of the future — thanks in large part to the Supreme Court. “In a new era marked by unlimited political money,” Time concludes, elections are “increasingly controlled by a band of outside hit squads waging proxy wars.”

In an accompanying photo, the names of America Rising’s targets line the wall of its war room in northern Virginia. Andrew’s name appears near the top of the list.